This chapter is from the book

Creating a New Site

The best way to create your new Site is to use the Site Wizard. Unless
you've disabled it with the Don't Show Again check box, GoLive
presents you with the option to start a new Site when you launch the
program.

If that option box doesn't appear, or if you want to manually launch the
Site Wizard at any other time, simply go to the File menu and select New Site.
Right away, you're into the Site Wizard, and are about to dip your first
toe into the pool of GoLive site development.

The Site Wizard

The Site Wizard, shown in Figure 3.1,
offers a variety of options to accommodate Workgroups and more advanced users
as well, making it a useful tool for any level of expertise. Let's walk
through the process step by step so that you can see for yourself how easily
it sets up any site. We'll opt to take the Single User route since Workgroups
will be covered in greater detail later in the book.

Figure 3.1 The Site Wizard first
presents you with the option to create a Single User or Workgroup site.

→ For more on Workgroups, see Chapter 26,
"The Workgroup Server."

As the Site Wizard opens, select Single User and click Next. Your options when
creating a New Site, shown in Figure 3.2,
include beginning completely from scratch with a new Blank Site, Importing a
Site either locally from your hard drive or remotely from a server, or choosing
a Site Template from the Templates Folder with GoLive. We'll explore each
of these options separately.

Creating a Blank Site

Creating a blank site means that you're creating a brand new root
directory for your site. Whenever you create a site, GoLive assembles a complete
package with all the things you'll need for that site. The site folder
automatically contains a generic home page called Index.html. The data
folder contains empty subfolders for future elements of your site. The settings
folder will hold specifications for your site. And the site document
itselfidentified by the site extensionopens to reveal the hierarchy
of your site within a Site Window.

Figure 3.2 This next screen of the
Site Wizard lets you choose the origin of your site's material: whether
it's a new original site, or is being imported from an existing source.

→ For more detailed information about the Site Window,
see "The Site Window" in Chapter 3, "Introduction to
Sites."

To create a new blank Site, complete the following steps:

Choose Blank Site from within the Site Wizard.

To access the Site Wizard, select File, New Site from the
menu, or press (Opt-Cmd-N) [Alt+Ctrl+N] on your keyboard. Establish yourself as
either a Single or Workgroup User and choose Blank Site. Click Next or simply
hit Enter/Return on your keyboard to proceed to the next step.

Name your Site. Type your site name into the space
provided.

For our example, we'll be creating a Site for Rooftop Records, a
fictional record shop; therefore our site will be called Rooftop, as in
Figure 3.3. (For more information
on file naming conventions and restrictions, see "File Naming,"
later in this chapter. )

Optionally, you may choose to create a single project folder here that
contains all your site-related files, and will be named accordingly. For
instance, if you name the site Mysite, the umbrella folder will be called Mysite
Folder. Check the Create Project Folder box on this screen if you'd like to
take advantage of this option.

Figure 3.3 On this screen, you can
give your new Site whatever name you choose. This name will not appear in the
finished Web site; it's only a reference for how your GoLive files are
named.

Choose a location to store your site. Click Browse, navigate
within your system until you reach the appropriate folder, and select it,
as shown in Figure 3.4.

Click Finish. As you can see in Figure
3.5, your new site opens automatically in a Site Window.

Figure 3.4 Use this screen to tell
GoLive where to put your files. If you're testing the Site from a local
server, it's best to store the files inside the server folder so you can
test them directly.

Figure 3.5 The finished Site Window shows all the components and folders
that GoLive has created for your site.